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Original Title:	The Homesman
ISBN:	1501102877 (ISBN13: 9781501102875)
Setting:	United States of America,1855
Literary Awards:	Spur Award for Best Novel of the West (1988)

The Homesman

Glendon Swarthout

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 3244 Users | 565 Reviews

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Title	:	The Homesman
Author	:	Glendon Swarthout
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	November 4th 2014 by Simon Schuster (first published March 6th 1988)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Westerns. Fiction

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IN PIONEER NEBRASKA, A WOMAN LEADS WHERE NO MAN WILL GO

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A “homesman” must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium. When none of the county’s men steps up, the job falls to Mary Bee Cuddy—ex-teacher, spinster, indomitable and resourceful. Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed alone. The only companion she can find is the low-life claim jumper George Briggs. Thus begins a trek east, against the tide of colonization, against hardship, Indian attacks, ice storms, and loneliness—a timeless classic told in a series of tough, fast-paced adventures.

In an unprecedented sweep, Glendon Swarthout’s novel won both the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award and the Western Heritage Wrangler Award. A new afterword by the author’s son Miles Swarthout tells of his parents Glendon and Kathryn’s discovery of and research into the lives of the oft-forgotten frontier women who make The Homesman as moving and believable as it is unforgettable.

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Ratings: 3.86 From 3244 Users | 565 Reviews

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What a terrific character driven novel with absorbing story that was fast paced and heart-breaking In Pioneer Nebraska, A Woman by the Name of Mary Bee Cuddy, leads where no man will go... This book was recommended to me because I loved Lonesome Dove and while this novel is certainly more concise (250 pages as opposed to 980 in Lonesome Dove) it by no means is any less exciting as it grabs the readers attention right from the first page.A devastating story of the early pioneers in 1850s Americas

Great story until the last 50 pages or so. I just felt so bereft at the end, and then like the end didn't make any sense. I just felt like there was part of the story missing.

Glendon Swarthout is best known for his western classic The Shootist, a novel that eventually became actor John Waynes last film. But now that Swarthouts equally powerful western, The Homesman, is being filmed (and directed by Tommy Lee Jones), this 1988 novel is being given new life thankfully so, because I missed it the first time around.The Homesman explores an aspect of American western migratory history that is seldom considered: what happened to those 1850s settlers who suffered mental

5 stars because I read it over 36 hours, couldn't put it down, and now I can't stop thinking about it. Quite possibly the most depressing and frustrating story I've read in a long time, and some of the basic principles - as well as the resolution of the story - make me angry and sad. If I was in a book group, I'd strongly suggest this as a read.

This is not exactly a review, rather, a strange connection for me. Some years ago one of the producers on the film UNFORGIVEN read my western, liked it a lot, and said to me, "You know, as I was reading this, I thought, this is the writer who needs to adapt THE HOMESMAN for Paul Newman." I read HOMESMAN and loved a lot of it--except for (no spoiler here, I'm restraining myself) how the female protagonist dealt with her loss near the end. And I knew, yes, I could write the hell out of this

I stood outside the sod house looking around at the prairie. Who could ever live in this desolate place? I stepped down into the dark kitchen, a home with only one door and too few windows. Its walls had been plastered with old newsprint that had become yellowed and torn with age, its floor, dirt. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brown had built this homestead in 1909. What was it like for them? I would have gone mad out here as some women, and even men, had. What was there to do other than sit in the kitchens

THE HOMESMAN was a very moving and tragic novel set in Nebraska during pioneer times. Some of the pioneer women during this period suffered emotional and psychological breakdowns that were so severe, they had to be removed from the prairie and treated elsewhere. George Briggs is the no good drifter who helps a teacher spinster named Mary Cuddy transport a group of afflicted women across the plains for help. This is a great story of history, courage, compassion, and the human condition. A